By: sherlock hound
@Citizen Alan: I noted one of the sponsors of that purity ball web was a ministry called “Hands of Love”. I can’ t believe I’m saying this out loud, but I immediately wondered if some poor 12-year old...
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“...16 states that provide SOME provisions for stripping rapedaddies of their custodial rights…” Only 16 and only some of their “rights”.
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@danah gaz (fka gaz): No, it’s a nasty comment I shouldn’t make, not because it insults her but because it insults actual transgender people.
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@danah gaz (fka gaz): and yet, here we are, trying to persuade with words. What is the point of writing and of debate if not to persuade? Regarding gay marriage, the deliberate strategy in here...
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@Knight of Nothing: “I think you ought to review the history of civil rights. I don’t recall “shame, abuse and scorn” as being the main themes in these narratives.” This is bullshit, at least insomuch...
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@Knight of Nothing: “and yet, here we are” yes. here we are. I have no reason to believe I’ll change your mind. what’s the point, you ask, if not to persuade? The point is intellectual and emotional...
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@schrodinger’s cat: Wait ‘til you hear where you’re supposed to put those purity balls…
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@danah gaz (fka gaz): Would it have been a big deal if Ryan had talked about the “circumstances of conception” rather than the “method of conception”? I mean, in a sense I agree with him, the...
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@Pseudonym: The issue I have with the headlines declaiming “rape just another ‘method of conception’” is that it makes it sound like he does’t have a problem with rape when the real issue is that he...
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@danah gaz (fka gaz): well, if you’re willing to swallow whole the history of the civil rights movement in order to make your point, I guess there’s nothing left to say. “The point is intellectual and...
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@Knight of Nothing: MLK assassinated. Malcom X assassinated Rev. Bruce Klunder backed over with a bulldozer and killed Rev. James Reeb beaten to death Lamar Smith assassinated Abraham Lincoln...
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@danah gaz (fka gaz): what made their deaths significant was the way they lived their lives, not vice versa. Points for the list, though.
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Also, if you think that MLK and Malcolm X accomplished nothing more substantial in their lives than “straightening the drapes,” well, what can one say to that? That is a truly cynical view. We’ve gone...
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@Knight of Nothing: Also, if you think that MLK and Malcolm X accomplished nothing more substantial in their lives than “straightening the drapes,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....07368.html African...
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